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National Science Foundation Report on Efficiency of Grant Size and Duration: Principal Investigator FY 2001 Grant Award Survey and Institutional Survey: Janice Ballou, Matthew Mishkind, Geraldine Mooney and Welmoet van Kammen
Beginning Head Start: Children, Families and Programs in Fall 2006: Louisa Tarullo, Jerry West, Nikki Aikens and Lara Hulsey
State of Arkansas and Hennepin County, Minnesota. Improving Participation in Food Stamps: Strategies and Challenges: Angela Merrill, Megan McHugh, Liz Schott and Julie Darnell
Kauffman Firm Survey (KFS) First Follow-Up Methodology Report: David DesRoches, Tom Barton, Frank Potter, Betsy Santos and Zhanyun Zhao
Case Studies of Schools Receiving School Improvement Grants: Final Report: Kerstin Carlson Le Floch, Jennifer O'Day, Beatrice Birman, Steven Hurlburt, Michelle Nayfack, Clare Halloran, Andrea Boyle, Seth Brown, Diana Mercado-Garcia, Rose Goff, Linda Rosenberg and Lara Hulsey
Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund: Implementation and Impacts of Pay-for-Performance After Two Years: Hanley Chiang, Alison Wellington, Kristin Hallgren, Cecilia Speroni, Mariesa Herrmann, Steven Glazerman and Jill Constantine
Effective Employment Services for Persons with Mental Retardation: Paul T. Decker and Craig Thornton
Quality Reporting on Medicare's Compare Sites: Lessons Learned from Consumer Research, 2001-2014: Margaret Gerteis, Cicely Thomas, Lauren Blatt, Sally Crelia, Alyson Marano Ward, Kelly Moriarty, Monica Sarmiento, Myra Tanamor and Russ Tisinger
A Study of Work Participation and Full Engagement Strategies: Jacqueline Kauff, Michelle K. Derr and LaDonna Pavetti
Work-Related Overpayments Among Disability Beneficiaries: Marisa Shenk and Gina Livermore
School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study Volume 3: School Meal Costs and Revenues (Summary): Christopher W. Logan, Vinh Tran, Maria Boyle, Ayesha Enver, Matthew Zeidenberg and Michele Mendelson
Easing the Burden of Caregiving: The Impact of Consumer Direction of Primary Informal Caregivers in Arkansas (Journal Article): Leslie Foster, Randall Brown, Barbara Phillips and Barbara Lepidus Carlson
QRS Profile: Mississippi Quality Step System: Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout
Consequences of Inaccurate Medicaid Administrative Data on Survey Response Rates and Medicaid Health Policy Issues: Anne Ciemnecki, Karen CyBulski and Judith Wooldridge
Operating a Vocational Training Program in a Juvenile Correctional Facility: A Case Study: Sukey Leshnick and Sarah Thomason
Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program Site Visit Report: The State of Illinois KidCare Program: Amy Westpfahl Lutzky and Heidi Kapustka
Coastal Medical's Leadership Academies: Investing in Staff Development and Collaboration (Case Study): Rivka Weiser and Julia Embry
W2 Converting to Wisconsin Works: Where Did Families Go When AFDC Ended in Milwaukee?: Rebecca Swartz, Jacqueline Kauff, Lucia Nixon, Tom Fraker, Jay Hein and Susan Mitchell
Improving Employment Outcomes for People with Psychiatric Disorders and Other Disabilities: Bonnie O'Day, Crystal Blyler, Benjamin Fischer, Claire Gill, Todd Honeycutt, Rebecca Kleinman, Joseph Mastrianni, Eric Morris, Lisa Schottenfeld, Allison Thompkins, Allison Wishon-Siegwarth and Michelle Bailey
A Framework for Selecting Employment Interventions to Benefit Youth: Todd Honeycutt and Michael Levere
Food Stamp Participants' Access to Food Retailers: James C. Ohls, Michael Ponza, Lorenzo Moreno, Amy Zambrowski and Rhoda Cohen
Strategies for Improving Attendance in Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten: Toolkit for Districts, Schools, and Early Childhood Providers: Martha Bleeker, Jaimie Grazi and Felicia Hurwitz
Selecting Policy Indicators and Developing Simulation Models for the National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs: Lisa Dragoset and Anne Gordon
Underusers of Mammogram Screening: Stage of Adoption in Five U.S. Subpopulations: Anne M. Stoddard, Barbara K. Rimer, Dorothy Lane, Sarah A. Fox, Issac Lipkus, Roger Luckmann, Jill Spitz Avrunin, Susan Sprachman, Mary Costanza and Nicole Urban
Child Participation in Supplemental Security Income: Cross- and Within-State Determinants of Caseload Growth: Lucie Schmidt and Purvi Sevak
Food Stamps in Rural America: Special Issues and Common Themes: Sheena McConnell and James Ohls
Promoting Readiness of Minors in SSI (PROMISE) Evaluation: Interim Services and Impact Report (Executive Summary): Arif Mamun, Ankita Patnaik, Michael Levere, Gina Livermore, Todd Honeycutt, Jacqueline Kauff, Karen Katz, AnnaMaria McCutcheon, Joseph Mastrianni and Brittney Gionfriddo
Effective Evaluation of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems for Early Care and Education and School-Age Care: Gail Zellman, Richard Brandon, Kimberly Boller and J. Lee Kreader
An Approach for Addressing the Multiple Testing Problem in Social Policy Impact Evaluations: Peter Z. Schochet
How Medicaid Agencies Administer Mental Health Services: Results from a 50-State Survey: James Verdier and Allison Barrett
Vitamin B-12 Concentrations in Breast Milk Are Low and Are Not Associated with Reported Household Hunger, Recent Animal-Source Food, or Vitamin B-12 Intake in Women in Rural Kenya: Anne M. Williams, Caroline J. Chantry, Sera L. Young, Beryl S. Achando, Lindsay H. Allen, Benjamin F. Arnold, John M. Colford, Jr., Holly N. Dentz, Daniela Hampel, Marion C. Kiprotich, Audrie Lin, Clair A. Null, Geoffrey M. Nyambane, Setti Shahab-Ferdows and Christine P. Stewart
Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (SEBTC) Demonstration: 2012: Ann M. Collins, Ronette Briefel, Jacob Alex Klerman, Gretchen Rowe, Anne Wolf, Christopher W. Logan, Anne Gordon, Carrie Wolfson, Ayesha Enver, Cheryl Owens, Charlotte Cabili and Stephen Bell
Does Medicare HMO Enrollment Cause Adverse Selection in Medigap?: Deborah Chollet and Adele Kirk
A Life Lesson in Civics: How Democracy Prep Charter Schools Boost Student Voting: Brian P. Gill, Charles Tilley, Emilyn Whitesell, Mariel Finucane, Liz Potamites and Sean Corcoran
Early Head Start Children in Grade 5: Long-Term Follow-Up of the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project Study Sample: Cheri A. Vogel, Yange Xue, Emily M. Moiduddin, Barbara Lepidus Carlson and Ellen Eliason Kisker
2012 Regional Partnership Grants to Increase the Well-Being of and to Improve the Permanency Outcomes for Children Affected by Substance Abuse: Second Annual Report to Congress: Debra A. Strong, Sarah A. Avellar, Julieta Lugo-Gil, Megan Hague-Angus and Caroline Massad Francis
Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: POD BOND Comparison Report: Michael Levere, David Mann and David Wittenburg
Evaluating Early Childhood Assessments: A Differential Analysis: Samuel J and Meisels Sally Atkins-Burnett
Strengthening Partnerships Between Fatherhood and Human Services Programs to Improve Father Engagement: Armando YaÃ±ez and Rebekah Selekman
Comparative Case Study Analysis of Five Clinical Practice Guidelines in Anesthesiology: Ruchir Karmali, Noa Sager and Anna Christensen
How Individual and Environmental Factors Affect Employment Outcomes: Purvi Sevak and David C. Stapleton John Oâ€™Neill
Differences in Enrollee Outcomes Among Medicaid Managed Care Organizations: Lorenzo Moreno and Sheila Hoag
Measuring Teacher Effectiveness in Memphis: Eric Isenberg
Charter Schools and the Public Interest: Philip Gleason and Helen Ladd
EpiCore: Harnessing a Network of Health Professionals for Verification of Public Health Events: So O'Neil, Divya Vohra and Brenna Rabel
Marcos Institucionales Para la EvaluaciÃ³n de PolÃticas PÃºblicas (Presentation): Lorenzo Moreno
Medicaid Analytic Extract Provider Characteristics (MAXPC) Evaluation Report, 2010: Deo Bencio
Improving the Rigor of Quasi-Experimental Impact Evaluations: Lessons for Teen Pregnancy Prevention Researchers: Brian Goesling and Joanne Lee
Expectations of Sustainability: What Do CKF Grantees and State Officials Predict Will Happen Once RWJF Funding Ends?: Beth Stevens and Sheila D. Hoag
Disparities in the Healthfulness of School Food Environments and the Nutritional Quality of School Lunches: Sarah Bardin, Liana Washburn and Elizabeth Gearan
The Transitional Employment Training Demonstration: Analysis of Program Impacts: Craig Thornton and Paul Decker
Impacts of the 9th SOW QIO Program Care Transitions Theme on Condition-Specific Readmission Rates: Jelena Zurovac, Arnold Chen, Sue Felt-Lisk and Myles Maxfield
National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (NSSATS): 2004, Data on Substance Abuse Treatment Facilities: Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research
Changing Circumstances: Experiences of Child SSI Recipients Before and After Their Age-18 Redetermination for Adult Benefits (Journal Article): Jeffrey Hemmeter, Jacqueline Kauff and David Wittenburg
The National Study of Charter Management Organization (CMO) Effectiveness: Report on Interim Findings: Robin Lake, Brianna Dusseault, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt and Paul Hill
Combination Classes and Educational Achievement (Conference Paper): Jaime Thomas
Patient Dismissal by Primary Care Practices (Journal Article): Ann Oâ€™Malley, Kaylyn Swankoski, Deborah Peikes, Jesse Crosson, Nancy Duda, Timothy Day and Shannon Heitkamp
Proposed Methods for Developing and Testing Risk- and Reliability-Adjustment Models for HCBS Composite Measures: Alex Bohl, Mariel Finucane, Jessica Ross, Sheng Wang and Dejene Ayele
Money Follows the Person: Change in Participant Experience During the First Year of Community Living: Samuel E. Simon and Matthew R. Hodges
Massachusetts Homeless Triage Assessment: James Mabli and Hande Inanc
Dynamics of WIC Program Participation by Infants and Children, 2001 to 2003: Laura Castner, James Mabli and Julie Sykes
Districts and Data: Developing Capacity for Effective Data Use: Cassie Pickens Jewell, Libby Makowsky and Kristin Hallgren
Financial Challenges in New Integrated Care Programs: Deconstructing Rate-Setting Issues in Search of Solutions: James Verdier
Understanding the Employment Outcomes of Trainees in the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program Under the 2002 Amendments: Jillian Berk
A Guide to Using the Accountable Health Communities Health-Related Social Needs Screening Tool: Lee-Lee Ellis, Rachel Kogan and Laura Hanson
What Have We Learned Using Merged Administrative Data from the Social Security Administration and the Rehabilitation Services Administration?: David Stapleton and Frank Martin
Evaluation of the Business Case for Quality, Phase II: Kristin Andrews, Dominick Esposito, Erin Fries Taylor, Keith Kranker, Lei Rao, Sandra Greene, Kristin Reiter, Charlotte Williams and Stephanie Pierson
Improving the Connectedness of Long-Term Care Providers: Cross Site Report: Beth Stevens, Bridget Lavin and Valerie Cheh
Background Paper for Assessing the Evaluability of the HHS Strategic Plan to End Chronic Homelessness: Valerie Cheh and Rachel Shapiro
Linking Administrative Data to Improve Understanding of Child Maltreatment Incidence and Related Risk and Protective Factors: Andrea Mraz Esposito, Claire Smither Wulsin, Leah Pranschke, Andrew Burwick and Rebekka Nickman
Adapting Evaluations of Alternative Payment Models to a Changing Environment: Thomas W. Grannemann and Randall S. Brown
Analysis of Children's Health Insurance Patterns: Findings from the SIPP: John L. Czajka
Coordinating Care for Medicare Beneficiaries: Early Experiences of 15 Demonstration Programs, Their Patients, and Providers (Appendix A): Randall Brown, Jennifer Schore, Nancy Archibald, Arnold Chen, Deborah Peikes, Karen Sautter, Sherry Aliotta and Todd Ensor
Food Stamp Program Elderly Nutrition Demonstrations: Interim Report on Elderly Participation Patterns: Scott Cody
SCHIP in Ohio: Evolution and Outlook for the Future: Carol Irvin, Nancy Fasciano and Margo Rosenbach
Nutritional Quality of Congregate and Home-Delivered Meals Offered in the Title III-C Nutrition Services Program: An Examination Utilizing the Healthy Eating Index Tool: Katherine Niland, Mary Kay Fox and Elizabeth Gearan
An Examination of the Maternal Health Quality of Care Landscape in India: So O'Neil, Katie Naeve and Rajani Ved
Final Evaluation of Increasing Economic and Social Empowerment for Adolescent Girls and Vulnerable Women (EMPOWER) in Zambia: Ale Aponte, Evan Fantozzi, Amanda Beatty, Gelson Tembo, Chisangu Matome, Nathan Tembo and Evan Borkum
A More Diverse Teaching Force May Improve Educational Outcomes for Minority Students (Infographic): Jeffrey Terziev
Teacher Turnover and Access to Effective Teachers in the School District of Philadelphia, Study Snapshot: Erin Dillon and Steven Malick
Effective Care Coordination: The Hard Evidence from the Field: Randall Brown
SCAN Policies Database Fact Sheet: Elizabeth Weigensberg and Nuzhat Islam
Changes in Financial Aid and Student Enrollment at Historically Black Colleges and Universities After the Tightening of PLUS Credit Standards: Matthew Johnson, Julie Bruch and Brian Gill
Best Practices in Ensuring Data Quality in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS): Sarah Friese, Kathryn Tout and Gretchen Kirby
Using Advanced Analytics to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes for Children and Families: Elizabeth Weigensberg
Improving the School Attendance of New Jersey's Youngest Learners: Chronic Absenteeism in the Early Grades: How to Choose and Implement Proven Strategies to Improve Attendance: Martha Bleeker, Jaimie Grazi and Felicia Hurwitz
Family Self-Sufficiency Data Center Creating a Data Model to Analyze TANF Caseloads: Emily Wiegand, Robert Goerge and Leah Gjertson
Resurrecting Free Play in Young Children: Looking Beyond Fitness and Fatness to Attention, Affiliation, and Affect: Hillary L. Burdette and Robert C. Whitaker
Testing the Replicability of a Successful Care Management Program: Results from a Randomized Trial and Likely Explanations for Why Impacts Did Not Replicate: G. Greg Peterson, Jelena Zurovac, Randall S. Brown, Kenneth D. Coburn, Patricia A. Markovich, Sherry A. Marcantonio, William D. Clark, Anne Mutti and Cara Stepanczuk
The Early Experience of the Health Quality Partners Case Management Program: Nancy Archibald and Jennifer Schore
Analyzing the Association between Student Weight Status and School Meal Participation: Evidence from the School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study: Sarah Bardin and Alice Ann Gola
Experiences of Workers Hired Under Cash and Counseling: Findings from Arkansas, Florida, and New Jersey: Stacy Dale, Randall Brown, Barbara Phillips and Barbara Carlson
The Atlanta Public Schools Turnaround Strategy After One Year: High Impact Tutoring and the Purpose Built Schools Partnership: Kristin Hallgren, Naihobe Gonzalez, Jane Choi, Kevin Kelly, Annie Li, Lindsay Ochoa, Breanna Wakar and Brian Gill
The Right Help for the Right Workers at the Right Time Can Keep Them on the Job: Steve Bruns
Iowa Families That Left TANF: How Are They Faring Two Years Later?: Jacqueline Kauff, Thomas Fraker and Julita Milliner-Waddell
WIC-Medicaid II Feasibility Study: Final Report Appendices: Keith Kranker, Mary Kay Fox, Nora Paxton and Jessica Galin
National Beneficiary Survey Round 1: Public Use File Codebook: Debra Wright, Shilpa Khambhati and Beatrice Jones
Money Follows the Person 2013 Annual Evaluation Report Executive Summary: Carol V. Irvin, Noelle Denny-Brown, Alex Bohl, John Schurrer, Wilfredo Lim, Rebecca SweetlLester and Victoria Peebles
Elementary Math Programs in the Pittsburgh Public Schools: A Comparison of Everyday Math and Harcourt Math: Brian Gill, Catherine Nelson, Julia Kaufman and Kevin Booker
KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes: Christina Clark Tuttle, Brian Gill, Philip Gleason, Virginia Knechtel, Ira Nichols-Barrer and Alexandra Resch

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